Corporatised fabrications: Addressing methodologically research participants’ lies

Overview: Professor Helen Gunter and Professor Steve Courtney discuss: - The use of case studies and biographical narratives to explore the corporatised fabrications made by and to school leaders and how political and societal constructs influence their narratives - The importance of utilising theoretical tools (such as considerations of political and societal theories) to dissect and interrogate participant narratives - The role of social constructionism. - Issues with the co-construction of data between researcher and research participant Access the presentation: https://youtu.be/XE2QSSHsAU0 Citation of publication: Courtney, S.J. and Gunter, H. M. (2020) Corporatised fabrications: the methodological challenges of professional biographies at a time of neoliberalisation . In: Lynch, J., Rowlands, J., Gale, T. and Parker, S. (Eds) Practice Methodologies in Education Research. 27-47